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Aerobic Bowling

For Teachers K - 5th
Students participate in a bowling game for accuracy, speed and cardiovascular exercise. In this bowling aerobics lesson, students race in teams to underhand throw a bowling ball accurately. Students calculate their points in the game.
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Aerobic Frisbee Golf

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students work cooperatively as a team and accurately throw a Frisbee. In addition, students explore fitness components and different systems of the human body.
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Fitness & Math Challenge

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students learn math concepts while participating in various fitness tasks including pogo sticks, jumproping, pickleball, football throw. juggling, etc....
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Angle Aerobics

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review angle criteria and then stand. They demonstrate with their hands each type of angle called out by the teacher: right, acute, or obtuse. Music is added and students follow teacher in an angle aerobics class peppered...
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Heart Smart in a Heart Beat

For Teachers 5th - 7th
As an introductory activity, young statisticians measure their heart rate at rest and after exercise and compute the mean and median, and create a box & whisker plot.  This is followed by watching a video (that no longer seems...
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Are you going to eat that?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils identify and define composting. STudents compare and contrast aerobic and anaerobic composting. Students illustrate the benefits of composting and other methods to reuse, recycle, reduce, and respond. Pupils identify through...
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Angle Land and Angle Aerobics

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate different types of angles. In this geometry instructional activity, 6th graders use a protractor to identify acute, obtuse, and straight angles.
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Measuring Exponential Growth

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students reinforce math skills while learning about best practices for protection of water quality in the management of animal feeding operations. They make a table to show results of their calculations and compare and justify findings...
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In A Heartbeat

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss scatter plots then create a class scatter plot using their heart rate at rest and their heart rate after a few minutes of aerobic exercises. Students copy the points plotted as a class and create individual graphs...
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Scholastic

Extension Activity Building a Healthy Classroom Community

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Workout buddies aren't just for adults! Learners discuss the benefits of 60 minutes of physical activity each day and generate ideas for how they can accomplish this by working toward a goal with friends.
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Candy Bar Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the relationship between caloric expenditure and exercise, and see a real world use for fractions as they relate to daily life.
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Let's Get Physical

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Explore the benefits of physical activity and how it will affect your learners' health. Students track their physical activities for one week and then compare their results.  Collaboration with a math teacher woould be useful as it...
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The "Heart" of the Problem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create an exercise and nutrition program. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students use calculations of exercises plus their corresponding effects on the body and nutritional values of food to derive a health plan. Students...
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The "Heart" of the Problem

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore mathematical operations while studying nutrition. In this physical fitness lesson, students explore calories, pulse rate, and the circulatory system. Students use mathematical data to create a healthy physical fitness...
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Frequency Histograms, Bar Graphs and Tables

For Students 9th - 11th
In this statistics worksheet, students graph their data using frequency histograms, bar graphs and tables. They decide which graph shows the data best. There are 6 graphing problems.
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Calculating rates

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II activity, students solve verbal problems in which they calculate rates using the appropriate unit of measure.  The one page activity contains a combination of seven multiple choice and free response...
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Woman Power!!! Mathematics Camp

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Young scholars explore mathematics by researching stereotypes. In this gender bias lesson, students participate in discussions where they identify traditional careers according to their own gender. Female young scholars attend summer...
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Building a Scale Model

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a model of the solar system. In this solar system lesson, 3rd graders create a scale model of the solar system. Working in pairs students solve mathematical problems to correctly measure the distance each planet is...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: In a Heartbeat [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Apply knowledge of scatter plots to discover the correlation between heartbeats per minute before and after aerobic exercise.

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